U S and Britain Recognize French Liberation Committee
London and Washington announced limited recognition of the French Committee of National Liberation, allowing it to administer overseas French territories but not yet as a full government. Roosevelt stated US recognition was conditional on Allied military needs. Britain cited consultation and Levant functions.
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London
Reuters
Moscow Radio
Soviet Russia
French Committee of National Liberation
Washington
America
Great Britain
Levant
United States
de Gaulle
Giraud
France
Roosevelt
Nazis Sink Two Swedish Ships
Sweden reported that three German destroyers sunk two British fishing boats off Denmark in the North Sea near the northwest coast, with flames and possible loss of 12 lives. Swedish authorities launched a swift probe, calling the incident potentially serious and part of a string of Nazi attacks since last spring.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Germany
North Sea
Swedish
Foreign Office
Denmark
Ulven
Goteborg
Telegraph Agency
Tidningarnas Telegrambyra
Strikers Vote to End Three Day Walkout
In JohnsVille Pa the vast Henry Kaiser Brewster Aeronautical plant saw thousands of strikers return to work after a three day walkout ended on unconditional orders from the War Labor Board and the CIO United Automobile Workers. Workers gathered in a skating rink and voted to end the strike at once or hold a new vote after a 30 day cooling off period under the Smith Connally act.
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Johnsville
Henry Kaiser
Brewster Aeronautical Corporation
War Labor Board
International Office
United Automobile Workers
Oow
Balkan Guerrillas Stand By for Allied Attacks
LONDON Aug 26. Balkan guerrilla armies from Yugoslavia Albania Romania and Greece are alert and ready for Allied operations in southeastern Europe after a three day conference at the Yugoslav Albanian border. A Yugoslav spokesman says hundreds of Serbians are flocking to join the guerrillas as Eisenhowers get ready proclamation circulates. German patrols tighten as guns grenades and ammunition flow to Yugoslav partisans with Italian soldiers reportedly selling arms to the Yugoslavs.
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London
U.P
Europe
Yugoslavia
Albania
Romania
Greece
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Report Welles Has Resigned
Washington, Aug. 26. The fate of Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles hovered as Roosevelt returned from Canada. Welles has told South American diplomats he has resigned, awaiting Roosevelt's decision. Some speculate he might go to Moscow as a personal representative to coordinate postwar plans, ending a 28 year diplomatic career.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
White House
Cordel Hull
Welles
Roosevelt
Canada
Americas
Moscow
Goebbels Claims Reich Faces Unprecedented Danger
New York August 27 German Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels was cited as saying that Germany has never faced such deadly danger as today and that domestic coercion is needed to stay strong. The remark was attributed to an article in Das Reich and quoted by the BBC in broadcasts heard by NBC.
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New York
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Germany
British Broadcasting Corporation
NBC
Goebbel
Das Reich
Pacific Submarine Heroes Honored
Aboard the U S S Nautilus on August 26 a presidential unit citation was presented by Admiral Chester Nimitz to the crew of the Nautilus and other submarines. Commander William H Brockman received the award after Nimitz bestowed two Navy crosses six silver stars and 19 Navy and Marine corps medals to officers and men from six submarines. It was likely the largest ceremony of its kind for Pacific submarine heroes.
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Midway
Chester Nimitz
William H. Brockman
Nimitz
Marine Corps
Pacific
Russians Gain in Their Ukraine Drive
Soviet steppe army advancing west of Kharkov gained miles, wiped out 800 enemy rearguards, routed two battalions and captured villages. In Donets basin, Red troops killed 2,000 Germans and destroyed 48 tanks south of Izium and Voroshilovgrad. Konev and Popov promoted, Bryansk front troops fought to seize trenches with heavy hand to hand combat.
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London
Dnieper
Kharkov
Moscow
Ukraine
Ivan S. Konev
Poltava
Kiev
Zenkov
Red
Kiev-Poltava
Donets
Izyum
Voroshilovgrad
Konev
Markian M. Popov
Orel
Bryansk
Popov
Netherlands
Norway
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Mining Claims in Neihart Area Sold to Taylor Group
L F E Taylor and associates announce purchase of the Moulton and Broadwater mining groups in Neihart from Klies Mining. The properties, once notable silver producers, now yield lead and zinc with some silver and employ about 40 workers. The deal includes a 100 ton flotation mill, trucks, and repair shops plus adjacent claims with molybdenum showings under prospect.
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Great Falls
L. FE. Taylor
Moulton and Broadwater
Neihart
Klies Mining Company
Eddie Klies
Moulton
Broadwater
Taylor
Weekend Weather: Skies Settle After Saturday Showers
Slightly cooler conditions arrive on Saturday with scattered showers. Friday highs reach 79 and lows near 37 as a cold front moves through the area.
Allies Smash Italian Airdromes and Railroad Yards at Foggia
Berlin residents flee the city as RAF Mosquito raids continue for a third night with 500,000 refugees in Poland. BBC reports Nazi ministries dispersing to Prague Vienna Posen Krakow as fear and panic push Germans outward amid Allied air operations over Caen in Normandy and northern France.
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Foggia
London
Berlin
Poland
U.S. Eighth Air Force
Dominion
Caen
Normandy
Allies Close in on Jap Positions on New Guinea
Allied ground troops near the last Japanese foothold on New Guinea central Solomons press the beleaguered garrison at Salamaua. Bairoko harbor shoreline largely in Allied hands as a 100 bomber force dropped 180 tons on Hansa Bay, igniting huge fires.
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Australia
U.P
New Guinea
Salamaua
Bairoko Harbor
Douglas MacArthur
Hansa Bay
New Montana oil field indicated after wildcat near Conrad
A Wallenstein ranch wildcat 20 miles west of Conrad shows 4 barrels per hour from a Madison limestone zone at 2 540 feet. Drilled by Jarvis Bros. & Marcel with I W Taylor on a 12 000 acre Pendray block led by E B Emrick and George Coffey, the well may become a producer with a second test well planned.
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Great Falls
Montana
Wallenstein Ranch
Conrad
Madison
Jarvis Bros. & Marcel
Centralia
I. W. Taylor
Pendrey
E. B. Emrick
George Coffey
Chateau
Emrick
Pondera
Bannatyne
Churchill Postpones Scheduled Talk in BBC Broadcast
New York aug 26 prime minister churchill's international broadcast set for sunday was postponed the british broadcasting corporation said arrangements are being made provisionally for his broadcast on tuesday no reason given will plan campaign in washington twenty five members of the advisory board of the national federation of women's republican clubs meet in Cincinnati august 31 September 1 to outline the republican women voters' offensive in the 1944 presidential campaign
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New York
U.P
Churchill
British Broadcasting Corporation
Washington
National Federation of Women’s Republican Clubs
Cincinnati
Republican Women Voters
Allied Committee Details Axis War Crimes in Occupied Europe
The inter Allied information committee accuses Germany, Italy, and satellites of a deliberate program of wholesale theft, murder, torture, and savagery unprecedented in history. The 40 page pamphlet cites executions, starvation, rapine, and deportations from late 1942 to early 1943 across Poland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Yugoslavia, and more, with figures of mass killings and forced labor.
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Allied Committee
Germany
Italy
London
U.P
inter-Allied
Europe
Poland
Warsaw
Rozki
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Reinhard Heydrich
Bohemia-Moravia
France
Governor Presents States Position at Water Hearing
Montana Governor Sam C. Ford told a House irrigation and reclamation hearing in Kalispell that upstream development should lead any Columbia River basin plan. He urged headwater sites over Flathead lake storage, stressed long-range planning, and favored Hungry Horse dam as a development anchor. Senator Wheeler warned against bypassing Congress, while Bonneville officials supplied engineering data for the record.
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Kalispell
Columbia River Basin
Sam C. Ford
Montana
House Committee On Irrigation and Reclamation
Flathead Lake
Ford
Columbia River
Northwest
B. K. Wheeler
Dmont
Congressional
Hungry Horse Dam
Northwest States Development Association
Missoula
Paul Raver
Bonneville Power
War Department Approves General Action In Honolulu
The War Department confirmed Lieut. Gen. Robert C. Richardson Jr. acted with full sanction in refusing to submit two German extraction U S citizens petitioning for habeas corpus writs in Honolulu. The official memo says Richardson’s stance on broad questions of Hawaiian defense was not to be decided by a federal court amid martial law tests, and he followed directions from Army superiors.
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Washington
U.P
War Department
Robert C. Richardson, Jr
Hawaiian Department
U. S
Richardson
Canadian Troops Withdrawn From Sicilian Fighting
Allied headquarters report that Canadian forces, after rapid, exhausting advance in Sicily, have been withdrawn to rest and to prepare for future operations. Lt. Gen. McNaughton said the Canadian Army can be used as needs require. Montgomery praised their left flank maneuver near Mt Etna.
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North Africa
A. G. L. McNaughton
Sicily
McNaughton
Eighth Army
Bernard L. Montgomery
Montgomery
Catania
Mt. Etna
U S Lightning Fighters Lead Attack
U S Lightning fighters led a major air assault over Italy from North Africa to strike Gugia airdrome and satellite fields. Flying Fortresses and Liberators bombed targets, destroying hangars and planes. 26 enemy aircraft were shot down, with 175 Axis planes downed since last Thursday and 200 to 300 dead or wounded on the ground.
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Allied
North Africa
Italy
Foggia
Sicily
Tunisia
Harold P. Harper
Bakersfield
Calif
Mountbatten Opens Southeast Asia Command Discussions
Lord Louis Mountbatten, newly named Allied supreme commander in Southeast Asia, met Thursday with Admiral King and General staff to map plans for driving Japan from Burma and reopening the China supply line. The discussions cover monsoon timing and future talks with Chiang Kai-shek as operations near.
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Washington
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
Ernest J. King
Burma
China
Navy Department
King
U. S
Mountbatten
Army
War Department
Roosevelt
Chungking
Chiang Kai-shek
Mrs. Roosevelt Arrives in New Zealand
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt wife of the President arrived in Auckland New Zealand on Friday for a state visit. Six more violent deaths were reported from Denmark on Thursday amid anti German sabotage and disturbances continuing across Europe.
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Mrs. Roosevelt
New Zealand
Auckland
U.P
Eleanor Roosevelt
Stockholm
Denmark
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Balkan
By Richards
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Reich
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W. W. Hercher
British Broadcasting System
Prague
Ministry of the Interior
BBC
Foreign Ministry
Vienna
Ministry of Education
Posen
Labor Ministry
Krakow
Baltic States
Austria
United Nations
Kiska
Kiska Island
Associated Press
USN
Allied Headquarters
Tral Solomons
Wildcat
James Earl Roper
Luxembourg
Columbia
Hungry Horse Reservoir
National Forest
By Noland Norgaard
Far East
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